Faculty - Meeting of the Minds - Crohn’s and Colitis Canada

Faculty

Co-Chairs
Remo Panaccione, MD FRCPC (he/him/his) Professor of Medicine University of Calgary CCC Chair in IBD Research Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit Assistant Dean of MD Admissions Undergraduate Medical Education Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, AB	A. Hillary Steinhart, MD MSc FRCPC Professor of Medicine University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre Toronto, ON
Faculty
Eric Benchimol, MD PhD FRCPC Northbridge Financial Corporation Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, SickKids IBD Centre The Hospital for Sick Children Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto Toronto, ON Dr Michael Byrne, MA MD (Cantab) FRCPC Founder and Chairman of Dova Health Intelligence Clinical Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Vancouver General Hospital University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Daniel Drucker, MD Senior Investigator, Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, ON Jean-Eric Ghia, PhD HDR CAGF AGAF Communication Director Gastrointestinal Basic Biology Research IBD Clinical & Research Centre Department of Immunology, Internal Medicine Section of Gastroenterology Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba President, Alliance Française Manitoba Vice-Président, Acfas-Manitoba Winnipeg, MB Russ Greiner, PhD Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Anne Griffiths, MD FRCPC Co-Lead, IBD Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children Senior Associate Scientist, Research Institute The Hospital for Sick Children Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto Toronto, ON Vipul Jairath, MBChB DPhil MRCP FRCPC Professor of Medicine Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University London, ON Sally Lawrence, MBChB FRCPCH Clinical Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Pediatric Gastroenterologist BC Children's Hospital Vancouver, BC Sun-Ho Lee, MD PhD Assistant Professor, Clinician Scientist Mount Sinai Hospital Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases Faculty of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto Toronto, ON Kate Lee, PhD MBA Vice-President, Research & Patient Programs Crohn's and Colitis Canada Toronto, ON Jeffrey McCurdy, MD PhD FRCPC Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology University of Ottawa The Ottawa Hospital Ottawa, ON	Dermot McGovern, MD Professor of Medicine & Professor Biomedical Sciences Cedars-Sinai Director of Precision Health Medicine Los Angeles, CA Kerri Novak, MD MSc FRCPC Associate Professor University of Calgary Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group Foothills Medical Centre, President-Elect, International Bowel Ultrasound Group (IBUS) Calgary, AB Maitreyi Raman, MD MSc FRCPC CAGF Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine Director AsCEND (Alberta's Collaboration of Excellence for Nutrition in Digestive Diseases) Past Director Clinician Investigator Program Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, AB Peter G. Rossos, MD MBA FRCP(C) FACP CAGF Chief Medical Information Officer, University Health Network Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation Division of Gastroenterology and Department of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, ON Cynthia Seow, MBBS (Hons) MSc FRACP Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences University of Calgary Calgary, AB Joelle St-Pierre, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, AB Ted Steiner, MD FRCPC Professor of Medicine and Division Head in Infectious Diseases University of British Columbia Infectious Disease Physician Vancouver General Hospital Research Scientist BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute Vancouver, BC Ryan Ungaro, MD MS Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Clinical Research, The Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY Eytan Wine, MD PhD FRCPC Division Head Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Hospital for Sick Children Professor, University of Toronto Toronto, ON
CFD Scientific Steering Committee
Eric Benchimol, MD PhD FRCPC University of Toronto, ON Jean-Eric Ghia, PhD HDR CAGF AGAF University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Kate Lee, PhD MBA Crohn's and Colitis Canada, Toronto, ON	Remo Panaccione, MD FRCPC University of Calgary, AB A. Hillary Steinhart, MD MSc FRCPC University of Toronto, ON

Quick FactFaites en bref

Canada has among the highest incidence rates of Crohn's and colitis in the world.
1 in 140 Canadians lives with Crohn’s or colitis.
Families new to Canada are developing these diseases for the first time.
Incidence of Crohn’s in Canadian kids under 10 has doubled since 1995.
People are most commonly diagnosed before age 30.

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